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Exploring New SQL Prompt Features in SQL Toolbelt and SQL Toolbelt Essentials
Roseanna Whitelegg explores new SQL Prompt functionality that has been added to SQL Toolbelt and SQL Toolbelt Essentials to help teams increase their productivity, improve code quality, and make collaboration easier. Read moreBulk Formatting of the SQL Server SQL Files
How to apply SQL formatting styles as part of an automated process, using the SQL Prompt command line formatter, with examples of bulk applying styles from the command prompt, PowerShell or a DOS batch. Read moreSQL Prompt ALT S Magic
Use the SQL Prompt Command Palette to find and execute 'hidden' SQL Prompt functionality, plus any of the common SSMS commands, as well as search for database objects. Read moreHow to Compare Two SQL Prompt Styles
A PowerShell function that will compare two SQL formatting styles, saved in JSON, and produce a report showing the differences between the options they use to lay out your SQL code. Read moreUsing Aliases in SQL Prompt
Phil Factor explores the role of table aliases, explaining when they are required, and their general purpose otherwise, the need for sensible naming of aliases, and how SQL Prompt handles them. Read moreSQL Prompt by Keyboard
Phil Factor shares a handy keyboard shortcut diagram that reveals some of the most useful of Prompt's keyboard shortcuts, and a wallchart showing every piece of Prompt functionality, what it does, where to find it in the various menus, and of course its keyboard shortcut. Read moreControlling how SQL Prompt Formats your Code: The Knobs and Dials
Phil Factor explores and discusses the current state of the art in SQL Formatting, as done automatically by SQL Prompt. Read moreHow to Apply Non-Standard SQL Formatting Using SQL Prompt
SQL Prompt not only will format your code exactly as you want, but will also help you switch quickly to an alternative style, or to apply exceptions to certain parts of a SQL script, where your preferred style isn't what's required. Read moreSQL Prompt as a Layout Tool: A Survival Guide
Phil Factor's guide to taming SQL Prompt code layout options, and getting it to format code exactly the way you like it. Read moreDriving up database coding standards using SQL Prompt
A strategic view of how a development team can use SQL Prompt to establish and share coding standards, through code analysis rules, formatting styles and code snippets. Read more
How to reformat a database in one operation
Inherited a database from another team? Changed your team policy on the way that you format SQL? What's to stop you formatting the code of an entire database nicely, when you're developing it? Manually, the process can take longer than you expect. Phil Factor demonstrates a simple 3-step approach to reformatting a whole database , in a single operation, using SQL Compare and SQL Prompt. Read moreA day in the life of a developer with SQL Prompt
Write, refine, format and test a reporting query before lunch then refactor a database, and retest the new design, afterwards. All in a day's work for a developer armed with SQL Prompt. Read moreHow we used your feedback to improve parentheses formatting in SQL Prompt 8.1
After we released SQL Prompt 8, our priority was to continue to support the new formatting engine by fixing any bugs and reviewing feedback from users. One of the recurring patterns we noticed in your feedback regarded parentheses formatting. Some of you told us you couldn’t format the parentheses exactly the way you wanted to. Read moreThe SQL Prompt Functionality Finder
You have SQL Prompt, but are you aware of all the things it can do and how to get it to do it? Phil Factor provides a handy table to make it obvious. Read moreUsing multiple custom SQL formatting styles in SQL Prompt
Louis Davidson shows how to use SQL Prompt formatting styles to create and maintain multiple code styles, each for a dedicated purpose, and to switch between them and apply a new style to existing code, with ease. Read moreThe Louis Davidson custom style for SQL Prompt
Louis Davidson sticks his neck out and offers his take on a sensible SQL code formatting style, based on twenty-plus years of writing SQL. Starting from SQL Prompt's Default style, he customizes it based on his own list of personal preferences for how SQL code should look. The result is the Louis Davidson custom SQL Prompt style that you can download, try out, and adapt as required. Read moreHow to implement a SQL formatting standard using SQL Prompt v8
Louis Davidson explains why your team needs a standard style for formatting SQL and how SQL Prompt will help make this happen. Read moreHow to format a set of SQL scripts using SQL Prompt
Any database developer or DBA who spends much of their working week staring at SQL code quickly becomes set in their ways. They like to see the code laid out in a very particular way. They will struggle to look at, let alone digest and understand, code formatted in a ‘foreign’ style. It’s also rare Read moreRedgate Hub
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